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THE  PRESS  OF  THE 
HAMPTON  NORMAL 
AND  AGRICULTURAL 
INSTITUTE.  JUNE  1921 


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HAMPTON 

MEN  AND  WOMEN 


HAMPTON  SMITH-HUGHES  TEACHER 
TRAINER  WITH  HIS  CO-WORKERS 


A NEGRO  BANK  IN  RICHMOND,  VIRGINIA 
THE  ARCHITECT  IS  A HAMPTON  GRADUATE 


FOREWORD 


This  little  pamphlet  summarizes  the  results  of  Hampton’s 
fifty-three  years  of  training  Negro  and  Indian  youth  to  become 
self-supporting  citizens,  actively  interested  in  the  development  of 
their  various  communities,  living  at  peace  with  their  neighbors, 
and  doing  their  best  to  advance  the  Kingdom  of  God  among  men. 

While  the  many  vocations  followed  by  Hampton  men  and 
women  are  classified  in  these  pages  under  five  main  heads — social 
service,  teaching,  business,  trades,  and  the  professions — there  are 
many  other  occupations  in  which  their  influence  is  felt. 

Their  avocations  are  quite  as  important  as  their  vocations. 
Their  homes,  their  schools,  their  churches,  they  themselves,  be- 
come centers  of  influence  for  their  communities,  as  they  engage 
in  the  manifold  activities  affecting  their  neighbors — church  and 
Sunday  school,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  and  Y.  W.  C.  A.,  various  clubs,  inter- 
racial and  social-welfare  committees,  and  other  organizations. 

This  brief  record  is  offered  as  a justification  for  the  existence 
of  Hampton  Institute,  which,  like  all  vocational  schools,  is  an 
expensive  institution.  An  investment  in  the  education  of  Hamp- 
ton students  pays  in  the  human  dividends  it  earns. 


CLUB-BOY  WINNER  OF  FIRST  PRIZES  AT  TWO  FAIRS 
THE  CLUB  IS  DIRECTED  BY  A HAMPTON  MAN 


COMMUNITY  WORKERS  (MEN) 

Prominent  among  the  factors  making  for  better  conditions  in 
colored  rural  communities  are  the  county  agents,  of  whom  Hamp- 
ton men  form  a large  proportion.  One  of  them  supervises  this 
work  in  eight  States  with  68  agents  under  him.  Hampton  men 
are  also  in  charge  of  the  agents  in  Virginia,  North  Carolina,  and 
Mississippi.  One  in  Georgia  has  charge  of  ten  counties.  Besides 
these,  many  Hampton  men  are  serving  in  individual  counties, 
helping  tens  of  thousands  of  farmers  to  produce  larger  crops 
more  economically,  to  improve  their  live-stock,  and  to  co-operate 
in  improving  educational  facilities. 

Hampton  men  are  doing  excellent  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  settlement, 
and  other  community  work  in  the  West  and  South.  One  is  in  charge 
of  the  colored  Y.  M.  C.  A.  work  in  the  State  of  Virginia.  Another 
is  head  of  the  Boys’  Reformatory  in  Hanover  County.  Others  are 
officers  of  the  Negro  Organization  Society,  which  stands  for  com- 
munity improvement.  An  Indian  graduate  is  Y.  M.  C.  A.  secretary 
in  Arizona.  . 


COLORED  COMMUNITY  HOUSE,  HAMPTON,  VIRGINIA 
A HAMPTON  WOMAN  IS  IN  CHARGE 

COMMUNITY  WORKERS  (WOMEN) 

The  great  majority  of  Hampton  women  engage  in  some  kind 
of  community  work  in  addition  to  their  wage-earning  activities. 
Every  home  managed  by  a well-trained  woman  becomes  an  object 
lesson  to  her  neighbors,  and  thousands  of  these  in  the  South  and 
West  are  presided  over  by  former  students  of  Hampton. 

In  increasing  numbers,  however,  Hampton  women  are  making 
social  service  to  the  community  their  life  work.  The  State  director 
for  Virginia  of  the  home-demonstration  workers,  who,  like  their 
brothers,  the  county  agents,  work  for  twelve  months  in  the  year 
for  the  betterment  of  the  community,  is  a Hampton  graduate. 

Some  Hampton  women  have  attained  high  rank  and  wide 
recognition  in  the  field  of  social  service  as  executive  and  other 
officers  in  homes  for  wayward  girls,  as  headworkers  in  settlements 
and  community  houses,  in  public-health  and  playground  work, 
and  in  church  and  Y.  M.  C.  A.  activities,  to  say  nothing  of  the  com- 
munity work  done  as  a matter  of  course  by  busy  housewives  and 
teachers. 


HOME  ECONOMICS  IN  A NORFOLK  PUBLIC  SCHOOL 
THE  TEACHER  IS  A HAMPTON  GRADUATE 

TEACHERS  (VOCATIONAL) 

More  than  250  Hampton  graduates  and  ex-students  are 
engaged  in  vocational  teaching,  many  holding  positions  of  great 
importance  as  superintendents  of  industries,  heads  of  agricultural 
and  home-economics  departments,  supervising  industrial  teachers, 
and  foremen  of  shops. 

The  Smith-Hughes  Act  has  created  a large  demand,  not  only 
for  teachers  of  agriculture,  home  economics,  and  trades,  but  also 
for  State  trainers  of  such  teachers.  Hampton  is  meeting  both 
these  needs,  providing  many  Smith-Hughes  teachers  in  county 
training  and  State  normal  schools,  and  at  least  three  State  Direc- 
tors. One  Smith-Hughes  teacher  of  carpentry  has  120  students 
and  5 assistants. 

At  Tuskegee  Institute  are  forty  Hampton  men  and  women, 
some  serving  in  important  executive  positions  and  others  as  voca- 
tional or  academic  teachers.  Many  Indians  are  industrial  teachers 
in  Government  schools. 


CLASS  IN  PHYSICAL  EDUCATION  IN  A GRADED  SCHOOL 
THE  TEACHER  IS  A HAMPTON  WOMAN 

TEACHERS  (ACADEMIC) 

Besides  the  vocational  teachers  who  are  spreading  Hampton 
ideas,  a large  proportion  of  Hampton  men  and  women  are  to  be 
found  in  all  the  various  grades  of  public  and  private  schools  in 
both  city  and  country,  where  they  teach  academic  subjects,  in- 
cluding singing,  drawing,  and  physical  training. 

As  educational  opportunities  for  colored  youth  increase, 
better  academic  positions  are  open  to  graduates  of  normal  schools. 
In  the  new  county  training  schools  which  offer  from  one  to  four 
high-school  grades,  are  to  be  found  fifty-one  Hampton  principals 
and  teachers.  An  increasing  number  of  women  are  acting  as 
critic  teachers  in  State  normal  and  private  schools,  and  as  teacher 
trainers  in  summer  schools. 

Hundreds  of  Hampton  graduates  are  still,  by  self-denying 
labor,  creating  little  centers  of  influence  in  the  rural  South,  where 
the  masses  of  the  colored  people  can  be  most  effectively  reached. 
At  least  twenty-seven  graduates  are  known  to  have  taught  in  the 
same  place  for  forty  or  more  years. 


ROBERT  R.  MOTON  (HAMPTON  1890)  WILLIAM  M.  COOPER  (HAMPTON  1913) 

PRINCIPAL  OF  TUSKEGEE  INSTITUTE  PRINCIPAL  COUNTY  TRAINING  SCHOOL,  N.  C. 

PRINCIPALS  OF  SCHOOLS 

The  two  most  distinguished  graduates  of  Hampton  have  pre- 
sided over  Tuskegee  Institute,  now  the  largest  colored  school  in 
the  world,  since  its  foundation — Booker  T.  Washington,  its  foun- 
der, and  Robert  R.  Moton,  its  present  principal.  The  influence  of 
Tuskegee  Institute,  now  enrolling  1800  students,  is  world  wide. 

Sixty-five  other  Hampton  men  and  women  are  serving  as 
principals,  twelve  of  them  at  the  new  county  training  schools 
which  are  now  offering  larger  opportunities  to  country  boys  and 
girls.  Two  State  industrial  schools,  several  large  private  insti- 
tutions, and  many  public  schools  scattered  from  New  Jersey  to 
Alabama  and  from  Oklahoma  to  Indiana  are  in  charge  of  Hamp- 
ton graduates  or  ex-students,  with  assistants  teaching  in  grades 
from  the  first  to  the  tenth.  Twenty-nine  of  these  schools  are  in 
Virginia. 

A number  of  these  educational  leaders  have  been  working  in 
the  same  communities  for  twenty-five  or  more  years,  exerting  a 
tremendous  influence  in  the  development  of  their  people. 


THE  JOHN  A.  ANDREW  MEMORIAL  HOSPITAL,  TUSKEGEE  INSTITUTE 
DIRECTOR,  JOHN  A.  KENNEY,  M.  D.  (HAMPTON  1897) 

IN  THE  PROFESSIONS 

Besides  the  large  number  engaged  in  the  profession  of  teach- 
ing, more  than  three  hundred  Hampton  men  and  women  are 
doctors,  lawyers,  ministers,  architects,  editors,  druggists,  dentists, 
and  nurses. 

Of  the  more  than  sixty  physicians,  several  are  heads  of  excel- 
lent hospitals,  one  having  recently  established  the  only  post- 
graduate course  in  this  country  for  Negro  physicians.  Another 
is  senior  resident  physician  at  a white  sanitorium  in  Wisconsin, 
having  passed  the  best  examination  as  an  expert  in  tuberculosis. 
Many  nurses,  druggists,  and  dentists  are  assisting  the  doctors  in 
bringing  about  a large  decrease  in  Negro  mortality.  Hampton 
ministers  and  lawyers  devote  much  time  to  helping  their  com- 
munities. One  minister  built  up  a large  institutional  church;  sev- 
eral have  been  successful  missionaries  in  Africa.  Hampton  law- 
yers include  a deputy  prosecuting  attorney  of  an  Indianapolis 
court.  A Hampton  architect  has  designed  houses,  banks,  and 
churches  in  Richmond,  Va.,  one  church  costing  $150,000. 


TYPICAL  COTTAGE  FOR  COLORED  PEOPLE 
ON  SELLING  LIST  OF  REAL-ESTATE  AGENT,  A HAMPTON  MAN 

IN  BUSINESS 

Hampton  men  and  women  to  the  number  of  500  are  engaged 
in  the  banking,  insurance,  real  estate,  building  and  loan,  and 
moving-picture  business,  as  well  as  in  numerous  smaller  business 
enterprises.  Many,  both  Indian  and  Negro,  are  in  the  Government 
service  as  clerks,  stenographers,  mail  carriers,  matrons,  farmers, 
and  teachers.  A colored  woman  graduate  holds  a responsible 
place  in  the  New  York  Post  Office.  Some  are  executive  officers 
and  directors  of  banks,  or  of  building  and  loan  associations,  and 
several  hold  the  important  position  of  treasurer,  auditor,  or  chief 
accountant  at  Tuskegee  and  in  other  large  schools.  At  least 
eleven  very  successful  corporations  owe  their  existence  to  the 
business  sagacity  of  Hampton’s  sons. 

A graduate,  who  is  editor  and  publisher  of  a weekly  news- 
paper with  a circulation  of  175,000,  has  recently  moved  his  busi- 
ness into  a $200,000  plant.  Another  is  district  superintendent  of 
the  Southern  Aid  Society  of  Virginia. 


KENNEDY  HALL,  HAMPTON  INSTITUTE,  UNDER  CONSTRUCTION 
DAVID  H.  TERRY  (HAMPTON  1904),  FOREMAN  AND  INSTRUCTOR 

CONTRACTORS  AND  FOREMEN 

In  the  various  trades  over  200  Hampton  men,  including  In- 
dians, are  contractors,  owners  of  shops,  foremen,  or  journeymen, 
which  is  a fair  percentage  of  those  completing  trades  in  the  Arm- 
strong-Slater  Memorial  Trade  School  since  1900.  Tradesmen 
have  little  trouble  in  obtaining  work  in  the  South  where  skilled 
colored  workers  are  employed  in  large  numbers  by  many  white 
corporations,  notably  by  the  Newport  News  Shipbuilding  and  Dry 
Dock  Company.  They  find  employment  also  in  increasing  numbers 
with  the  many  Negro  development  companies  recently  organized. 

A number  of  Hampton  men  are  foremen  and  instructors  in 
the  leading  industrial  schools  of  the  South.  Many  others  have 
shops  of  their  own,  often  employing  a number  of  assistants.  Many 
Hampton  tradesmen  have  built  attractive  houses  for  themselves 
or  their  parents.  Several  are  successful  contractors.  One,  a 
bricklayer,  who  is  his  own  architect,  has  recently  contracted  for 
buildings  aggregating  in  cost  $211,000. 


SOME  FUTURE  HAMPTON  MEN  AND  WOMEN 
THE  CLASS  OF  1921 


Hampton  Institute  is  an  undenominational  school,  controlled  by  a 
board  of  seventeen  trustees.  The  school  property  includes  about  1100 
acres  of  land  and  140  buildings,  many  of  which  have  been  built  by  the 
students. 

The  number  of  students  is  1848,  of  whom  473  are  colored  children  in 
the  Whittier  Training  School,  and  540,  teachers  in  the  Summer  School. 
The  835  boarding  pupils  provide  their  own  board  and  clothing,  partly  in 
cash  and  partly  in  labor  at  the  school.  But  the  great  majority  of  students 
cannot  pay  their  tuition,  which  is  one  hundred  dollars  per  pupil. 

Many  Sunday  schools,  associations,  and  friends  of  the  two  races  are 
interested  to  give  (these  scholarships,  and  larger  and  smaller  sums  year  by 
year,  according  to  their  ability,  and  thus  assist  Hampton  in  raising  the 
amount  needed  for  current  expenses  in  addition  to  its  regular  income. 
A full  scholarship  may  be  endowed  for  $2500. 

To  take  its  proper  place  in  the  work  of  racial  re-adjustment,  Hamp- 
ton must  raise  this  year  from  private  subscriptions  : — 


Toward  Retirement  Fund 

15 

gifts 

of  $1000 

$15,000 

For  extension  work  in  Va. 

30 

gifts 

of 

500 

15,000 

For  teachers'  salaries 

60 

gifts 

of 

250 

15,000 

For  teachers’  salaries 

150 

gifts 

of 

100 

15,000 

For  teachers’  salaries 

200 

gifts 

of 

75 

15,000 

For  teachers’  salaries 

300 

gifts 

of 

50 

15,000 

For  upkeep  of  buildings 

600 

gifts 

of 

25 

15,000 

For  general  expenses 

1500 

gifts 

of 

10 

15,000 

For  general  expenses 

3000 

gifts 

of 

5 

15,000 

$135,000 

Any  amount  you  may  care  to  contribute  will  be  gratefully  received  by 
James  E.  Gregg,  Principal,  or  F.  K.  Rogers,  Treasurer,  Hampton,  Va. 


